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America Needs a Wealth Tax

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, “Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society.”

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Banning Political Ads: Twitter Did Something Right For Once

Twitter, meanwhile, announced they would no longer accept any paid political ads.

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Daylight Savings Time Sucks

Let’s face it - Daylight Saving Time helps absolutely no one.

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The Case for Compulsory Voting

The solution may be taking away the option entirely and mandating that all eligible voters cast a ballot.

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Concentration Camps Undermine American Ideals, Obviously

If our positions are so unmovable, our hate so defining, then the American Experiment is already a failed one.

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America's Private Prison Issue is an Existential Crisis

America’s incarceration rate is out of control. More people are in our prisons than in that of China or Russia

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America Needs to Cut Border Patrol Spending

Whether you agree with the Trump administration’s pleas to secure our borders, or not; one thing is for certain, we need to reduce spending

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The Inevitability of the Movie Remake

Movie remakes seem to be something of an inevitability these days

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It's Time to End the Tattoo Stigma

The stigma around tattoos is one that needs to end. The younger generations have been making it clear that tattoos mean absolutely nothing a

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Impeach Donald Trump

These are assumptions that made the rapid fire news developments of the past week so shocking and gratifying to fatigued observers, for, unl

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Urging a Breakaway Party for Moderate Conservatives

You don’t need to become a Democrat, you can exercise your political power through action and create your own party, one that embraces true

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Is the New Generation Forgetting the Holocaust?

A study commissioned by the Jewish Materials Claims Against Germany found that in a study of 1,350 Americans, aged 18 and older, millennials

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Let 16-Year Olds Vote Locally

16-year-olds should be given the right to vote on more localized ballots such as school boards or town representatives/

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UAlbany's Questionable Relationship With Israel

During the first half of 2019, during which the CEHC field trip took place, Israeli occupation forces killed 54 Palestinians, including 12 c

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Nationals Fans Send a Message to the World

The Nationals fans began booing the president; the noise level was even measured at 100 decibels, equivalent to a jet takeoff at 305 meters.

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Lebron James Ignorant on Hong Kong Comments

LeBron James, a symbol for ‘wokeness’ in America and one of the greatest basketball players of all time, now has furious Hong Kong protestor

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Give Back Our Self-Serve Soda, Campus Center!

By Emily Hayes Campus Center restaurants no longer have self-serve drink options. With the exception of Damien’s, the soda machines are...

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Boris Johnson and the Blatently Undemocratic Suspension of Parliament

By LIAM JEFFRIES Brexit is one of those news stories that, like a Monty Python sketch, seems to get more insane the longer it goes on....

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The World Needs To Pressure Brazil to Act on Amazon Fires

By LIAM JEFFRIES As I write this, the Lungs of the Earth are burning in front of the world’s eyes. The Amazon rainforest has been ravaged...

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